so i thought i'd share a cool story i found out the other day.
a youtube channel i like a lot is called "digging the greats" and one of his videos is about the Pharcyde's song "Runnin'"
feel free to watch the video here if you want the full rundown, it's a cool video anyways.
basically j dilla was still a newbie at this point and created and produced the beat for Runnin' and the story goes that one of the members switched the kickdrum when j dilla and the rest of the group were out for lunch. another member was pissed about this and almost fought him in the hallway after the switch and then begged j dilla to put it back to the way it was since it got deleted.
so what made j dilla's beat so special?
so i'm still new to j dilla and what made him so iconic compared to a lot of other producers, but from this story i can start to understand why. he used a 20 bar kickdrum pattern instead of a standard 2, making it seem a lot more unpredictable and kept things interesting. this wasn't ever really done before and it's what made this track and also his personal style so unique. so when you listen to it, you can hear the kickdrum always changing and makes it feel a lot more human and less "perfect"
i find his style so fascinating since he also uses quantization a lot, something i'm still trying to understand fully. digging the greats also has another great video just about j dilla's style in general that i highly recommend to see what i'm talking about.
after learning about this whole story i just thought i'd ask, what are your guys' thoughts about his kickdrum pattern? in an age where AI music is becoming much more real, everything is starting to seem a lot more uniform and perfect. so what do you think about using "perfect" machines to make "imperfect" music?
let me know your thoughts! i'd love to get your takes on it and also about production styles.
hope the weather's nice where you are
-purple
a youtube channel i like a lot is called "digging the greats" and one of his videos is about the Pharcyde's song "Runnin'"
feel free to watch the video here if you want the full rundown, it's a cool video anyways.
basically j dilla was still a newbie at this point and created and produced the beat for Runnin' and the story goes that one of the members switched the kickdrum when j dilla and the rest of the group were out for lunch. another member was pissed about this and almost fought him in the hallway after the switch and then begged j dilla to put it back to the way it was since it got deleted.
so what made j dilla's beat so special?
so i'm still new to j dilla and what made him so iconic compared to a lot of other producers, but from this story i can start to understand why. he used a 20 bar kickdrum pattern instead of a standard 2, making it seem a lot more unpredictable and kept things interesting. this wasn't ever really done before and it's what made this track and also his personal style so unique. so when you listen to it, you can hear the kickdrum always changing and makes it feel a lot more human and less "perfect"
i find his style so fascinating since he also uses quantization a lot, something i'm still trying to understand fully. digging the greats also has another great video just about j dilla's style in general that i highly recommend to see what i'm talking about.
after learning about this whole story i just thought i'd ask, what are your guys' thoughts about his kickdrum pattern? in an age where AI music is becoming much more real, everything is starting to seem a lot more uniform and perfect. so what do you think about using "perfect" machines to make "imperfect" music?
let me know your thoughts! i'd love to get your takes on it and also about production styles.
hope the weather's nice where you are
-purple